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Day 20: Homeward Bound

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  Another North American Road Trip Day 20 Wednesday, July 8th This is the final day of our trip (assuming all goes to plan.). We got up at 6:30 and were out of the house and on the road by 7AM.  Our first stop was Backwoods Donuts. They had some amazing choices and it was hard to make our selections. Both Desmond and Bryan ended up with donuts that had cereal on top. Bryan’s was a peanut butter chocolate flavor.  We drove into Washington. We drove past fields and fields of wheat. Desmond read the abilities of various cards from the Magic deck that Bryan got in Calgary as we went along. We wished we had remembered to fill our waterbottles before we left. We finished off the water that was in them and kept driving.  We planned to eat Chipotle in Tri Cities. Only we would arrive about 15 minutes before they would open. So we figured we would stretch our legs at a grocery store and get chicken and eggs so that we would not have to leave our house to get food for dinner a...
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Day 19: Silverwood

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Another North American Road Trip Day 19 Tuesday, July 7th Today we woke up and packed a picnic lunch, applied lots of sunscreen, put on our swimsuits (and additional clothing to further prevent sunburns) and all hopped into our friend’s van and drove over to Silverwood. We got a picture of our group at the entrance sign, and went and got in line for when the gates opened at 11AM.   We walked in, rented some lockers, stashed our stuff and then began going down the water slides where you ride intertubes.  We split up into smaller groups, and planned to rejoin at lunch time. We had a good time. We did water slides, the wave pool, the lazy river where you float along in intertubes and try to steer each other under downpours at intervals.  One of the highlights were the novelty of churro “fries”. They were adorable little churros with soft serve ice cream to dip them in.  When it was the second time to reapply sunscreen, we decided to change into street clothes. We ate a ...
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Day 18: Columbia Valley

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Another North American Road Trip Day 18 Monday, July 6th With no morning hike to tempt us out of our tents, we slept in, had an oatmeal breakfast at the campsite, and drove out around 10:30.  Upon a second sighting of a group of “goats” from yesterday outside of Radium, we have determined that, perhaps, those are the sheep. None of them had the iconic big spiraling horns I was expecting. And with their coats shedding off they are a bedraggled little flock.   We stopped in Radium at the information centre and asked about a hike for today. They gave us a recommendation in the Columbia valley, a HooDoo hike.  We drove South and followed the instructions on the pamphlet to the trailhead. We hiked up the trail, until we were on top of the hoodoo formation. The views out over the Columbia River, near its headwaters, was very lovely.  We were hot, and the mosquitos were again targeting Bryan, so we hiked quickly back down to the cruck. The estimate for how long the hik...
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Day 17: More Banff and Kootenay National Park

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  Another North American Road Trip Day 17 Sunday, July 5th We woke up. None of us had been eaten by bears. Nor had there been any excitement during the night. We slept longer than intended.  We ate various bars for breakfast and packed up the campsite. Then we drove toward our planned hike, hoping there would be room in the parking lot despite our late departure.  We got to the trailhead parking lot at 7:50AM. It was only 2/3 full. We parked easily and started our hike.  Before long we were going up walkways pinned to the canyon walls above the frosty turquoise water rushing below. The trail followed the river. Both Desmond and I noticed that we didn’t seem to be having as much trouble with the elevation. Checking my watch I learned we were above 4000 ft, but much lower than other places we have hiked on this trip so far.  We continued on, until we got to the lower falls. We waited in a short queue to walk through a little tunnel like spot in the rock to get rig...
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